BEIJING — Rocky planets zipping around distant stars might reveal themselves in the chemical elements missing from their host star.
Compared to stars like it, the sun contains fewer planet-building elements such as aluminum, calcium and silicon, Jorge Melendez of the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil said on August 27 at the International Astronomical Union’s general assembly meeting.
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